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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A group of drug cartel inmates who were allowed by guards to leave prison to commit murders are believed responsible for the massacre of 17 people earlier this month, the Mexican government said on Sunday.
Mexico's federal prosecutors' office said in a televised statement the prison staff, including the director, knowingly let out the inmates at the detention center in Gomez Palacio in Durango state.
"They were allowed to leave the prison and use the weapons of the guards in these executions using official vehicles," said Ricardo Najera, the spokesman for the federal prosecutors' office.
"These criminals carried out their executions as part of the settling of accounts between rival gangs and disgracefully these cowardly criminals then murdered innocent civilians on their way back to their cells."
Drug gang hitmen in five sports utility vehicles stormed a birthday party in the northern city of Torreon on July 18 and gunned down 17 revelers with automatic weapons. Another 18 people were wounded in the attack.
Two prison guards have so far been detained in the investigation into the case, Najera said.
Torreon is one of the northern cities at the heart of the struggle between rival drug gangs to control smuggling routes into the United States.
More than 26,000 people have died in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an army-led crackdown on the cartels after taking office in late 2006.
The worsening violence has alarmed the United States government and risks undermining investor confidence in Mexico, where the industrial sector depends heavily on export sales and foreign investment.
(Reporting by Robert Campbell; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Jul 25, 2010 8:59pm EDT
popcorn,…..
vmax14
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Jul 25, 2010 9:15pm EDT
Here’s to an open border with Mexico! Yohoo! Come on over. Here’s the welcome mat to your bigots, your criminals, and your anarchists. Your drug kingpins and their hedge men. Why should they bother to vote when they can assassinate?
How absurd are those Americans that support illegal immigration! You will reap what you sow. You will.
SeaWa
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Jul 25, 2010 11:04pm EDT
If there was ANY doubt as to how firmly the border needs to be closed, this story should settle that question.
If you can’t trust the government to keep convisted felons in prisoners…….. well, it just so absurd as to need no further discussion.
Close the border. Don’t let ANYNE in. I don’t care WHO they are. NONE of them are to be trusted. They can’t trust each other. Why should we?
Joe200011
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Jul 25, 2010 11:37pm EDT
Not sure why they can’t just build a big wall, like in Isreal. What difference would that make except stopping illegal crossings?
Chakiejan
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Jul 26, 2010 2:45am EDT
Dear President Obama;
If it wasn’t clear enough to you why the Governor of Arizona felt her people were unjustly threatened by illegal immigrants last week, could I ask you to reconsider now? I mean realistically, is it that hard to accept that criminals are not welcome to transgress the territorial boundaries of a sovereign state? Or is it just a matter of ’saving face’ for the federal gang that has failed so miserably in holding up their end of the bargain?
Litigation is a cold-blooded, divisive and panty waste alternative to doing your job though. Isn’t it?
Psyllicon
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Jul 26, 2010 3:01am EDT
That must be a ‘prisoner release’ program that we haven’t instituted yet.
Maybe after we’ve finished the lawsuit against Arizona.
Psyllicon
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